Oil exports account for 65...

ECONOMIC LIFELINE FIXED.

August 26, 1987

QUITO, ECUADOR — ECONOMIC LIFELINE FIXED. Oil exports account for 65 percent of Ecuador's foreign income. Five months ago earthquakes ruptured a key pipeline. Other OPEC members stepped in with oil loans to Ecuador, which managed to produce 50,000 barrels a day on its own. All of that oil was used domestically. The state oil company said the pipeline has been repaired and shipments resumed Sunday with 306,000 barrels sent to foreign customers.